Call for Papers – The Many Lives of Medieval Manuscripts Symposium

30th November – 1st December 2023 at Trinity College Dublin

Manuscripts for Medieval Studies Project supported by Carnegie Corporation of New York

We are delighted to announce a Call for Papers for a symposium on ‘The Many Lives of Medieval Manuscripts’ as part of the ‘Manuscripts for Medieval Studies’ project, supported by Carnegie Corporation of New York. The symposium will take place on Thursday 30^th November and Friday 1^st December 2023 at Trinity College Dublin.

The ‘Manuscripts for Medieval Studies’ project aims to conserve, catalogue, digitise and share some of the most significant medieval manuscripts in the Library’s collection, including bibles, books of hours, chronicles, histories, psalters, and manuscripts with musical notation. The symposium will explore the many lifecycles of the Library’s medieval manuscripts, from their production and use by contemporaries to their present-day conservation, digitisation, and dissemination.

Speakers will include Professor James Clark (University of Exeter), Dr Laura Cleaver (University of London), Dr David Rundle (University of Kent), and Professor Ruth Karras (Trinity College Dublin).

We invite proposals for twenty-minute papers on medieval manuscripts in the Trinity collection and would especially welcome papers on manuscripts which have been digitised as part of the project (detailed below). We welcome a range of themes, including, but not limited to: art; book collecting; cataloguing; conservation; digitisation; famine, plague & warfare; gender & sexuality; love & death; manuscript lifecycles; materiality; music; performance; readership; religion; society & culture.

Proposed titles, 150-word abstracts and bio/ academic CVs should be sent to Dr Claire McNulty (clmcnult@tcd.ie) by 18 September 2023.

Please see links to the medieval manuscripts which have been digitised as part of this project below:

• TCD MS 35 A large and lavishly illustrated bible (14^th century) https://doi.org/10.48495/x633f737d
• TCD MS 124 Gilbert the universal commentary on the book of lamentations (Canterbury, late 12^th century) https://doi.org/10.48495/2801pp26g 
• TCD MS 631 William Lambarde copy of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (1536-1601)  https://doi.org/10.48495/vt150s16z  
• TCD MS 502 John Of Worcester (mid 12^th century) https://doi.org/10.48495/bn999f49h  
• TCD MS 503 John of Worcester, Chronicula (mid 12^th century) https://doi.org/10.48495/000004234 
• TCD MS 301 A composite collection of sermons, patristic texts, saints lives and other religious items in prose and verse (First part written in the 13^th and 14^th centuries, and the second in the 15^th century, produced in England) https://doi.org/10.48495/z603r548s 
• TCD MS 270 John of Garland https://doi.org/10.48495/jm214x02z 
• TCD MS 519 Benedict Burgh, Cato Major, middle English verse https://doi.org/10.48495/qn59qb40f  
• TCD MS 602 William of Malmesbury, Gesta Pontificum Anglorum. This manuscript was also in the collection of St Augustine’s Canterbury https://doi.org/10.48495/vq27zv242 
• TCD MS 360 Catalogue of books in Saint Augustine’s Abbey Library, Canterbury  https://doi.org/10.48495/7p88cp52b 
• TCD MS 174 Lives of saints with middle English and old English. This manuscript bears inscription in Old English (Salisbury, late 11^th and early 12^th century)  https://doi.org/10.48495/6t053p10f 
• TCD MS 514 A miscellany  https://doi.org/10.48495/rj430b47n 
• TCD MS 83 The York Missal  https://doi.org/10.48495/jh343x643    
• TCD MS 1747 https://doi.org/10.48495/g158bp354 
• TCD MS 177 Matthew Paris, the ‘Book of St Albans’, a famous masterpiece of 13^th Century art https://doi.org/10.48495/8p58pm63q
• TCD MS 53 The Winchcombe Psalter, a lavishly illustrated New Testament and Psalter created in Winchcombe in Gloucestershire (mid 12^th century) https://doi.org/10.48495/9s161f248   
• TCD MS 524 Cartulary of Torre Abbey, St Saviour (13^th century) https://doi.org/10.48495/5999nb565  
• TCD MS 88 Breviary with calendar entries for Irish Saints (15^th century)  https://doi.org/10.48495/w95058287 
• TCD MS 432 Trilingual verse collection in Latin, Middle English and French (Northampton, 15^th century)  https://doi.org/10.48495/3b591j087   
• TCD MS 11275 Collection of 12 decorated fragment leaves (12^th-15^th centuries)     https://digitalcollections.tcd.ie/concern/works/6w924m093?locale=en 
• TCD MS 667 Honorius of Autun and miscellany (15^th century)  https://doi.org/10.48495/gh93h656j 
• TCD MS 195 Sermon collections with music, and Wycliffite Psalms and Athanasian Creed in English (14^th/15^th century) https://doi.org/10.48495/v118rp622
• TCD MS 158 The Pricke of Conscience, Middle English and Latin verse miscellany with music and recipes https://doi.org/10.48495/bk128k29
• TCD MS 77 Antiphoner of Armagh (mid 15^th century) https://doi.org/10.48495/6q182t51n 
• TCD MS 78 Clondalkin Breviary (late 15^th century) https://doi.org/10.48495/dj52w8569 
• TCD MS 79 Antiphonary made for Christchurch Cathedral (late 15^th century) https://doi.org/10.48495/pr76fc386  
• TCD MS 80 Kilmoone Breviary (early 15^th century) https://doi.org/10.48495/m326m959h 
• TCD MS 100 A Gradual of Germanic origin with Hufnagel notation, medieval binding (15^th century) https://doi.org/10.48495/9g54xt27c    
• TCD MS 101 Antiphonal produced for female use for Bridgettine convent Marie Wijngaard, in Utrecht, medieval binding (15^th century) https://doi.org/10.48495/w3763h300  
• CD MS 101 Antiphonal produced for female use for Bridgettine convent Marie Wijngaard, in Utrecht, medieval binding (15^th century) https://doi.org/10.48495/w3763h300    
• TCD MS 109 Antiphonal with music, only Irish Franciscan missal to survive (1450-1499) https://doi.org/10.48495/cf95jn26q    
• TCD MS 51 West Dereham Bible (St Albans, 1150-1180) https://doi.org/10.48495/6969z883x  
• TCD MS 93 Psalter, made for Sir John Wingfield of Suffolk and his wife Elizabeth Fitzlewis who married c1450 (15^th century) https://doi.org/10.48495/v405sk46x    
• TCD MS 266 Waldensian manuscript https://doi.org/10.48495/76537996g
• TCD MS 505 Brut Chronicle etc. (15^th century) https://doi.org/10.48495/2514nv93h  
• TCD MS 91 Illuminated Psalter in French (late 13^th century) https://doi.org/10.48495/cv43p647h  
• TCD MS 96 Select religious services, probably written at Cremona, Italy (15^th century)  https://doi.org/10.48495/j3860h774